BOOKS
R.D. Hinshelwood (1989) Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (London: Free Association BOOKS) (Second edition 1991)
After teaching Klenian analysis for some years to psychotherapy students, I found that I learned a lot! It seemed important to try to capture the ideas, and their origins in classical Freudian psychoanalysis. I was encouraged enormously by the publisher, Bob Young of Free Association BOOKS. It serves as a reference book for clinical and academic study.
R.D. Hinshelwood (1994) Clinical Klein (Free Association BOOKS, London)
Having written the theoretical dictionary, I recognised that more was needed because Kleinian clinical work is based in such detail on the clinical moment and interactive process in psychoanalytic practice. Hence, I attempted to trace the origins of the ideas in the actual reported clinical material of sessions that can be found in published literature.
R.D. Hinshelwood (2023) The Mystery of Emotions: In Search of a Theory of Emotions. London: Phoenix/Karnac.
Much later, I addressed the problem that although psychoanalysis is the practice of listening to emotional experiences, especially the painful and unresolvable kind, there was not satisfactory thery of amotions agreed amongst psychoanalyst. This seemed a serous lack and this book attempts to survey many theories from philosophy, academic psychology and branches of psychoanalytic theory to extract some common denominators on which the dimensions of the emotions could be founded.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
R.D. Hinshelwood (1992) Psychodynamic formulation in assessment for psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy 8: 166-174. Reprinted in Chris Mace (ed) The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy. (London: Routledge) pp. 155-166.
In my career as a psychoanalyst pat-time in the NHS, I ran a local out-patient psychotherapy service for which I did a great deal of assessments to select patint for many volunteer psychotherapists whi wished to increase their experience. I devised a triangulating form of survey to draw together a prospective patient’s experience of their current trouble, of their early history, and of the immediate impression of transference in the assessment. Where one could detect that these three stories overlapped seemed to be a potential starting point for understanding the relevant unconscious dynamic which distorted the patient’s experience.
R.D. Hinshelwood (2007) The Kleinian theory of therapeutic action. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 76 (supplement): 1479-1498.
Various changes occur in patients during a psychoanalysis, but it is particularly the change that occurs uniquely from the analysis that is important. This paper compares a Kleinian approach with the more classical one. Contemporary Kleinians tend to interpret as deeply as possible and to describe process and containment
CHAPTERS IN AN EDITED BOOK
R.D. Hinshelwood (2018) The good, the bad and the super-ego. In Celia Harding (Ed) Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope. London: Routledge.
Melanie Klein postulated an origin for the super-ego that contrasted with Freud’s structural model. Classically Freud derived the super-ego from the the Oedipus complex in the third year of life. In contrast, Klein derived it (and especially its harshness) from the persecution of the paranoid-schizoid position.